Category: ICT4D

Click here for an update from Pagak by Chrisopher, director of an agricultural movement in the region and also a BOSCO Web 2.0 training volunteer. As the IDP camps close down, people are reconstructing their lives in their home villages and are once again accessing the land that provides their livelihoods through farming. Continue reading An update from Pagak

The newest BOSCO sites to come online in the last two weeks include: St. Jude’s Orphanage and school (near the Catechists Training Center in Gulu); Lacor Seminary (secondary school for young seminarians); Lacor Primary School (where BOSCO volunteer trainer Jokondino teaches, featured here); and finally, Pabo Secondary school (Government run school) which complements the already … Continue reading New BOSCO sites online

Update – Our new Ubuntu server and backup have arrived in Kampala. What this means, among other technical developments, is that the residents of our client IDP camps will now be able to receive direct phone calls, at extra low cost, from anywhere in the world, and free from Indiana.Thanks to Jeff Wishnie at Inveneo, … Continue reading IDP camps to gain ability to recieve phone calls

Here’s an article I wrote for ICT Update magazine, which specializes in agricultural uses of Internet communications technologies. The hope is to get the word out as widely as possible about our project!…TedThe war in northern Uganda has driven thousands of people from their homes to live in camps. Now, after a lot of trial … Continue reading Window to the world